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A drug lord on the wanted lists in Colombia and the United States has been arrested by Venezuelan police....
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 11:33am PST
The Venezuelan government has given a Christian missionary group from the US until Sunday to leave the country....
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 11:32am PST
Gaida Kambon is back from the World Social Forum in Venezuela and is here in the Bay Area speaking out Feb. 23rd and 26th...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 8:15pm PST
Award-winning journalist/poet/author/activist John Ross will speak on "Which Way for Latin America's Indians – the Evo/Zapatista Divide" at the New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street on Friday, February 10th at 7 PM....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 1:14pm PST
Downing Street today refused to be drawn into a fresh war of words with Venezuela's president after he called on Britain to hand over the Falklands to Argentina....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:51am PST
When Tony Blair left the Commons chamber after question time, he probably thought David Cameron's accusation that he was "flip-flopping" over school reform was the worst verbal jab he would face this week....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 7:06am PST
Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has called Tony Blair, the British prime minister "a pawn of imperialism", accusing him of siding with Bush, the US president, in a confrontation with Venezuela....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 6:48am PST
Photo: Ecuadorean university student demonstrators face a police barricade during a protest against government policies around Carondelet Palace in Quito February 8, 2006....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 4:31pm PST
Friday, February 10th at 7M - John Ross speaks at New College - Returning from his recent travels with the Zapatistas, Poet/correspondent/author/activist John Ross will speak on "Which Way for Latin America's Indians? – the Evo/Zapatista Divide" at the New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 11:27pm PST
En menos de una semana un periodista encarcelado y un periódico bajo fuego...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 10:26pm PST
There are some exciting developments recently in Hands Off Venezuela....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 10:01pm PST
"One of the worst predictors of most governments' policies is their
campaign rhetoric. This is especially the case of presidential candidates
moving from the left toward the center. Much more reliable indicators of
the actual policies of a newly elected regime come in the form of the
Cabinet ministers appointed to key ministries."
from the following article......
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 1:56pm PST
Protesters in southern Argentina have stormed a police station, killing an officer and injuring 14 others....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 9:51am PST
* In Caracas, Venezuela between the 23rd and 29th of January 2006, 10 local socio-political organizations offered an alternative forum and critique of national politics in response to the World Social Forum. The result was a smaller-scale event but self-directed and reflective of current self-organizing capacity. The alternative forum was independent, self-managed and borne out of years of experience of organizing in the Venezuelan context....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 2:30pm PST
"el enemigo común" scratches beneath the surface of neoliberalism, at some of the its most hidden atrocities in recent North American history. The film documents instances of paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2002 through 2005 while including scenes from an international human rights movement in 2003, in Miami against the Free Trade Area of the America's, and in Cancun against the World Trade Organization. The three locations in isolation expose the d...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 7:58pm PST
SIPAZ Activities / October 2005 – January 15, 2006...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 2:30pm PST
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Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 2:21pm PST
SIPAZ Report Vol. XI nº1, January 2006...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 2:18pm PST
Major trade union federations, the biggest neighborhood social movements (in the combative city of El Alto) and rural landless movements are expressing consternation and hostility over several of newly elected President Morales' cabinet appointments and their initial policy priorities, which go counter to the campaign promises of candidate Morales....
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 9:59am PST
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez told a packed crowd at the Poliedro Stadium here, “The people of the United States are indispensable to saving to world, united with the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.” He said capitalism is destroying the world, and that unless the planet goes socialist, “I’m afraid it may not see the 22nd century.” His remarks, which evoked thunderous applause, were part of a long-awaited speech to the participants of the sixth World Social ...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 9:47am PST
